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<title><![CDATA[Angolan refugee successfully integrates in Russia]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR is providing assistance and helping to find long-term solutions for some 500 refugees who have been in Russia since the 1990s.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 6 May 2013 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR seeks information on fate of disappeared asylum-seeker]]></title> 
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UNHCR is concerned by the situation of Leonid Razvozzhaev, an asylum-seeker who disappeared from Kyiv last Friday, 19 October 2012, subsequently appearing in police custody in Moscow earlier this week.
During...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The UN Refugee Agency condemns refoulement of a refugee to Russian Federation]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Kyiv (Ukraine) - The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees condemns the extradition of the refugee from Russian Federation (Republic of Ingushetia) that took place on 15 August 2012 in breach of...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A third of refugees in Poland may be homeless]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Many of those granted asylum in Poland may be sleeping in shelters, empty buildings, train stations or even night buses.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Georgia project leads the way for socio-economic integration of refugees]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR and UNDP launch a project to ease the socio-economic integration of Chechen refugees in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge and support local development. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Chechen refugee finds an outlet for his talent in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[A UNHCR-funded income-generation project helps a former policeman and his wife to become self-sufficient as refugees in north-east Georgia.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR dismayed at murder of humanitarian worker]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[GENEVA - The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) wishes to express its shock and deep sorrow at the murder on 15 July of Ms. Natalia Estemirova, a staff member of UNHCR's...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Georgia issues travel documents to Chechen refugees]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The Georgian government has for the first time granted Chechen refugees the right to travel overseas, earning praise from the UN refugee agency.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[German scholarship widens options for refugees in Russia]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The Albert Einstein Academic Refugee Initiative, or DAFI, is helping 26 refugees in the Russian Federation to pursue professional qualifications in computer technologies, education, medicine and engineering, among other fields.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Chechen refugees in Pankisi Gorge resume normal life after Georgia scare]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Chechen refugees feared the worst during the conflict over South Ossetia, but their homes in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge were left untouched and life is returning to normal.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 1 Oct 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR distributes first aid in Georgia-South Ossetia "buffer zone"]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Villagers who had fled the August conflict have now received the first distribution of beds, mattresses, blankets and kitchen kits to begin to rebuild their lives back home in the north of Georgia.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR teams enter Georgia-South Ossetia "buffer zone"]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR teams enter a buffer zone between South Ossetia and the Georgian town of Gori, which has been out of reach due to the security situation.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Easing the woes of refugees, asylum seekers in St. Petersburg]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[A look at the challenges and assistance offered in the city that hosts the second-largest concentration of refugees and asylum seekers in the Russian Federation.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Guterres ends mission to Georgia, Russian Federation with visit to South Ossetia]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ Friday 22 August 2008 TSKHINVALI, SOUTH OSSETIA - Concluding a four-day mission to Georgia and the Russian Federation in the aftermath of the South Ossetia conflict, UN High Commissioner for Refugees...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[High Commissioner's mission to Georgia and the Russian Federation]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres today concludes a four-day mission to Georgia and the Russian Federation that included visits with people uprooted by the crisis in the breakaway Georgian...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Guterres winds up four-day mission to Georgia and the Russian Federation]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ Geneva, Friday 22 August 2008 VLADIKAVKAZ, Russian Federation - UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres today concludes a four-day mission to Georgia and the Russian Federation that included...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[High Commissioner on mission to Georgia]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres arrived earlier today in the Georgian capital Tbilisi at the start of a four-day mission to Georgia and the Russian Federation. He will assess UNHCR's...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR chief arrives in Georgia; urges donors to help aid effort]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[High Commissioner Guterres meets people uprooted by the recent fighting in and around South Ossetia and discusses the situation with Georgian officials.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Georgia/South Ossetia: HC to assess UNHCR operations and future support needs]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ High Commissioner António Guterres will travel to Georgia and the Russian Federation next week to assess UNHCR's humanitarian operations in both countries and to discuss with the two governments any...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR secures safe passage for Georgians fearing further fighting]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[More than 700 frightened residents of the remote Khodori Valley in Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region were escorted to safety in a two-day operation mounted by UN refugee agency staff. This comes as UNHCR airlifts over 100 tonnes of humanitarian aid to Georgia.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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